{"product_id":"flash-up-2013-new-edition-seiji-kurata","title":"Flash Up – 2013 New Edition — Seiji Kurata","description":"\u003ch2\u003eFlash Up — Seiji Kurata's Document of 1970s Tokyo\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFlash Up\u003c\/em\u003e is a sustained photographic record of the nocturnal and marginal zones of 1970s Tokyo. Originally published in 1980 by Byakuya-Shobo, it earned \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"\/collections\/seiji-kurata\"\u003eSeiji Kurata\u003c\/a\u003e the Ihei Kimura Award that same year and remains one of the most direct and unsentimental accounts of that city's underworld in postwar Japanese photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Book\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eKurata's camera moves through Ikebukuro and Shinjuku with the composure of a trained observer. The subjects are specific: yakuza, Bosozoku in street confrontations, ultra-right wingers at Meiji Jingu and on rural tour, nightclub hostesses, salarymen, car crash victims. The photographs do not aestheticize their subjects. Shot in medium format, they carry a journalistic clarity that distinguishes Kurata's approach from the more expressionistic work associated with his teachers Daido Moriyama and Araki Nobuyoshi. Where those photographers pushed grain and contrast toward abstraction, Kurata holds the image open — enough information enters the frame for a narrative to form in the viewer's mind without the photograph closing it off. A bleeding figure on a Ikebukuro street, surrounded by onlookers, while a well-dressed man in the crowd smiles directly at the lens: the image is documentary and strange in equal measure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKurata described the project in his afterword as rooted in the four years following the launch of \u003cem\u003eStreet Photo Random\u003c\/em\u003e in 1975 — a period of deliberate attention to the overlooked and the contingent, working against the noise of everyday life rather than through it. The photographs in \u003cem\u003eFlash Up\u003c\/em\u003e are the accumulation of that discipline.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eThe 2013 Edition\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition was published in 2013 by \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"\/collections\/zen-foto-gallery\"\u003eZen Foto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e as a large-format hardcover with slipcase. It reproduces the original 1980 publication at high quality and includes two essays by Kurata in both English and Japanese. The edition is limited to 750 copies. At 383 × 265 × 30 mm and 184 pages with 140 images, it presents the work at a scale appropriate to the photographs' density of detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor buyers interested in the full range of Kurata's published work, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"\/products\/eros-lost-seiji-kurata\"\u003eEros Lost\u003c\/a\u003e is also available in the shop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zen Foto Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54403712483674,"sku":"KURATA-FLASHUP-2013","price":170.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/flash-up-2013-new-edition-seiji-kurata-cover.jpg?v=1783612114","url":"https:\/\/lokator100.store\/products\/flash-up-2013-new-edition-seiji-kurata","provider":"Lokator100","version":"1.0","type":"link"}